"L'azzurro è il suo colore."
Translation:Blue is his color.
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Is this sentence supposed to indicate preference? As in, "OMG! Blue is totally her color! She is sooo gonna get that dress!"
To say "Blue is your colour" generally means "Blue is particularly becoming to you."
haha im not sure but i think it might be in the case of like, say for example, picking pieces for a board game where the pieces are distinguished by color. you'd say "blue is your color" as in telling the person theirs is the blue piece
Yes, Italian, like English, sometimes can be hard to understand.
Suo/sua are possessive adjective meaning his/hers/its and which one to use depends on the gender of the owned object, - in this case "il colore". But as we know nothing about the gender of the owner the following two versions are equally correct: - "Blue is his/her color".
"È la morte sua!", literally "It will be his/her death!", is a common Italian expression. (Remember that "sua" only tells us the gender of "it"). Initially, this expression may seem a bit shocking, but it is used when talking about delicatessen that goes really well together, - like melone e prosciutto, ham and melon, or pomodoro e mozzarella, tomatoes and fresh buffalo cheese, or pecorino e pere, sheep chese and pears, or breasola e rucola, air-dried salted beef and rocket salad, - the list can be made very long.
These are always consumed together, or to expresses it as in Italy, - they will die together!
A: Ti piace il melone? - Do you like the melon?
B: Si, la morte sua è con il prosciutto! - Yes, its death is with the prosciutto!
Just for the sake of accuracy, in Il blu è il suo colore, suo is a possessive adjective. A possessive pronoun would be the one used in Il libro è il suo (in English: 'the book is his/hers'). A pronoun replaces a noun (-> il libro è il suo libro).
English has a set for possessive adjectives ('my, your, his, her, our, your, their') and a different one for possessive pronouns ('mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs'). Italian uses the same set and it may be difficult to tell them apart :-)
Grazie - my linguistic knowledge is limited but I try to learn and will correct my comment
No harm done, no kittens were hurt. As I said, it was just for accuracy sake.
I always enjoy your explanations .-)
Is there anyone who had a difficulty in comprehending the pronunciation of "l'azzurro"? Do you hear a very distorted pronunciation as well? I search for the possible colours online, putting the letters I had heard after listening over and over again but there were no bloody colour as "lantturro" or "a(n)turro". I guesses it must be "azzurro" but hell no, nobody cannot overcome the hardship of Duolingo...
I don't believe putting "The" in the front is applicable, maybe that was the issue?
I am afraid not. You need to nominalize (ie make a noun out of a verb or adjective) azzurro which is an adjective, and to do that, you need the article.
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These new voiceovers I can't hear the l in "IL' I keep getting it wrong. So frustrating.
This will provide you all some help with the color section: http://www.omniglot.com/language/colours/italian.php
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I agree JoAnn. I listened carefully over and over and cannot hear him say the IL before the 'suo'
Because "il suo" is a possessive adjective. It must agree with the word "colour" which is masculine. Actually we don't know if it is his or hers. It could also be "your" if using the formal register, as one would use in a shop (negozio).
There is no way of knowing it without a proper context. It could also be his or its (these option are accepted now :-) )
proviously said that suo means "his or hers" now in this sentence why suo is used for "your"..please anyone help me..
The difference (in my mind, in English) is that in the first sentence you're emphasising that blue, not purple or red, is his color. And in the second sentence you're making a more general statement, slightly emphasising that its his color we're talking about, not anything else.
Duolingo corrected me by saying "her" instead of "his". I suspect this is incorrect
So is this essentially saying that blue is this person'a favorite color, or is it saying that blue is a color that compliments them well?
The mail voice needs to practice diction. I cannot understand him half the time. So frustrating!
When listening to the voice on slow mode, it definitely sounds like there's a stop between the L' and Azzurro making it sound more like "La Azzurro'
